Word: winterize
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...rush of cranky customers began around Christmas. Just as hordes of frazzled parents were descending on shopping malls, crowds of feverish, aching bodies were flooding the emergency department at Thunderbird Samaritan Medical Center outside Phoenix, Ariz., desperate for relief from this winter's nasty, widespread strain of flu. On many days, a couple of hundred patients, from wheezing senior citizens to crying babies in their weary mothers' arms, clogged the waiting room, sitting for up to six hours to see a doctor. It didn't take long for the 35 beds in Thunderbird's ED, and many on its other...
...This winter's flu onslaught has added another talking point to the health-care debate: the declining state of emergency services. Certainly the doctors are good, and the equipment gets better every year; in fact, the number of trauma centers that can deal with serious injuries is on the rise. But the ability to deliver service is being compromised. Medicare funds have been slashed as the number of uninsured patients has skyrocketed. A lack of beds and skilled nurses hasn't helped matters. In the past decade the total number of EDs in the U.S. has dropped from about...
...Americans who say they shower or bathe every day during winter...
...Americans in 1950 who showered or bathed daily during winter...
...first major snowstorm of the winter roared through New England yesterday, leaving a mess of snow, sleet and ice in the Boston area just in time for the tail end of exam period...